Things I’ve learned tonight: VIN trains Green Berets, can’t spell a lick, has lots of “ideas” but not much else, can’t train puppies to pee on the floor, and makes Ryan Kesler look classy by comparison.

MLBSF

Clemenza,

You publicity department employees are so easy to provoke.

smh

ViperHockey

Why are you guys engaging the troll? Ignore the troll, they eventually go away

classlessVIN

LA fans has class? They were boo’ing when Vlasic skated off the ice after being hammered from behind. Whether you think it warranted a penalty or not (it did) you still don’t boo an injured player.

Real class.

Didn’t St. Louis win the first 2?

VIN

Wow Clemmer,

Who’s beiber?

Alex

If anybody finds another angle on the Vlassic penalty please post it here. Very hard to say from 2 cameras used during the broadcast.

classlessVIN

While the penalty to Sheppard should have been offset with a penalty to LA; the penalty to Stuart was an easy call, and the refs thought that Vlasic put it over the without it touching anything. It’s not reviewable. So they called what they thought.

The first goal (5on3) was expected. The second goal was to easy. It should have gone to overtime. What happened then who knows. But no matter how you boil it, the Sharks laid an egg in those last few minutes.

The end of this game should be investigated by an independent authority…It is clear that there are criminal elements involved, which could very well spell that a ‘fix’ is in…For the investigation one needs to follow the money trail, which is probably well hidden. First the dubious suspension, just for the LA series mind you, and now not one but two penalties in last couple of minutes-handing the game to LA, when their loss was imminent. This entire series and the league reek to high hell…A real shame and makes the whole NHL look BAD! Not really worth watching I’m afraid…Go the beach, go hiking, do anything but watch this ‘fix’.

ViperHockey

#109, Remenda, is that you?

Renoshark

See ya next year, VIN! Keep those brilliant “ideas” coming!

Teejay

Turn out the lights, the party’s over.

And goodbye to TMac and maybe DW also.

Renoshark

Goodbye to TMac and possibly DW? They’re not going anywhere. And why would they?

NB Finfan

Come on folks, do you remember two years ago how we mocked Canuck fans for blaming every bad thing on the refs? Lets not start acting like them now. The Sharks lost some of their composure and put themselves in that 5 on 3 situation.

Maybe too many minutes for Stuart. He has been great on the back end. But he falls then takes the tripping penalty. Then he gets blown past on the go ahead goal.

Also like I mentioned above, Vlasic has to make a smarter play than the one that created the 5 on 3.

nostrils dame

109 is a perfect example of the clueless teal fan. if teal loses, it has to be cheating and a conspiracy

goduckies

while the ending hurts we have proven we can play and at times dominate these kings. this hopefully will be a year of firsts… first time ever sweeping an opponent. Next it is the first time to cone back down 2-0. Keep the faith and Go Sharks!

Phat Stat Phil

VIN @ 108 -

Keep the LA-San Jose rivalry one sided. You’re better than that.
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To everyone who responded to VIN:

I’m deeply disappointed in you guys. How did no one call him on spelling when he typed “genious idea”
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As for the game: I’d say that was our defense’s worst game of the playoffs. We allowed four separate cross ice passes through the box on the penalty kill. LA’s figured out how to open us up by putting a guy at the crease and then having him slide up. We couldn’t cover it at all.

The last two goals were a real heartbreaker — Hannan and Pavelski failing to tie up their guy’s stick. If you’d told me before the game that the two of them were going to lose it for us, I would have been skeptical.

Side note: I sincerely hope that you guys don’t think Torres would have won made an ounce of difference in that game. If you think Torres would have been that close to the crease in the defensive zone, then you haven’t been watching any of the other games in the series. There’s a reason he was a -2 last time out.

Tough for the Kings losing Kopitar — I’m glad he was OK though. They won’t win in our barn. And you know what they say — you haven’t lost a series until you’ve lost at home.

goduckies

agree phil torres didn’t affect the outcome of this game.

SharksFan

BREAKING NEWS: Sharks are 0-9 lifetime in playoff series when down 0-2. Now they will have to win 4 of 5. Please mail the Sharks golf course locations and tee times to the SJ Arena by the end of next week.

Phat Stat Phil

SharksFan @ 119

Sharks are 0-21 lifetime in winning the Stanley Cup.

History will be made.

Phat Stat Phil

I take that back. Make that 0-20 since this postseason hasn’t been played out yet.

I regret the error.

ZEKE

Two games and you can make a solid case that the Sharks out-skated LAK both games. Quick took game 1. And the 5 on 3 (flashback to Vancouver 2011 game 4 when we got called for both a delay and a too many men for those 5 on 3′s) was just brutal. Turning point in the game, and it may well be the defining moment of the series. Down 2-0 is not a good place to be. Though LAK was down 2-0 in their last series.

I said before the game that to beat Quick, there were 2 things we needed to do.

Needed to go cross ice with passes (not easily done) because when he comes out high, he has much further to move to cover both sides. Goals 1 and 2 came that way.

I said the other way was to use rebounds off the backboards because its tough for the goalie to get back to the net to defend. That is how our 3rd goal was scored. Quick was high in the crease and couldn’t get back.

The Sharks (hopefully) know what it takes to beat Quick and LAK. We could use a bit of puck luck because being down 2 games is good sized hole. But we can compete. The question is, will we? After this sort of tough loss, it will be very telling to see if the Sharks can find a way to rebound and win game 3. If they do, they have a good chance to win the series.

SharksFan

Exactly Phat…the same pathetic history that this franchise has displayed for 21 years. History tells us that this team will not deliver a different result than the one made in the last 21 years. Tonight we saw how a Stanley Cup champion responds to adversity and how a wanna-be Stanley Cup folds under adversity.

Renoshark

I don’t think Raffi being out will lose the series for us but there’s little debate that his presence, as well as Havlat’s, makes us a much better team. There’s also no question that the Pavs, Wingels and Torres line had a significant impact when they were paired together. Having said that, we still should have won tonight. That’s the most disappointing loss since the fluke puck bounce in Vancouver two years ago.

MW

I guess the Sharks should be thankful the NHL, the refs and Shannahan haven’t found a way to make it so the Sharks aren’t down 0-3 in the series after just two games. Why even watch this sport if the game is going to be decided by men in suits and by striped shirts?

And I NEVER complain about officiating. Total horse doo doo.

Phat Stat Phil

Renoshark @ 124 -

Our problems tonight were defensive. Like I said, it’s difficult to imagine Torres would have somehow played those two goals better or sealed up the holes in our defensive coverage.

We found a way to score three times tonight on a goaltender who plays the percentages very well. He doesn’t have amazing reflexes among NHL goalies. He doesn’t fight for pucks the way Nemo does. He lets out big rebounds. But he does have a solid defensive core to clean up for him.

We allowed multiple, ugly, cross-ice passes through the box. We allowed forwards to have their sticks on the ice in front of our goaltender. Hannan let Brown have his stick on the ice in the crease. Lewis beat Pavelski to the front of the net. And those are just the primary causes. There’s Couture’s failed clearing shot on the third one and the missed shot that gave them the breakaway on the last goal.

This was a terrible game defensively for us. We have to be better than that.

BarryEisenberg

This is just a PRE-game chat? I thought maybe the live gameblog got resurrected for the playoffs. ???